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BingoBoingo: A cow matters too...
BingoBoingo: @BBoingo @cfarivar A cow matters too!
decimation: yeah tramiel was commodore, when he left the thing tanked. it's a shame, they had a real shot at being an 'alternative' to intel
BingoBoingo: Sure, but is there a more ill thought out field than car naming is USia?
assbot: 7 results for 'tramiel' : http://s.b-a.link/?q=tramiel
asciilifeform: iirc tramiel named it after a car that existed in his times
decimation: I missed out on that generation, my first computer was an x86 a few years later
asciilifeform: came with a book that described approximately everything there was to know about it.
asciilifeform: anyone ever fit a keyboard to nes/snes ?
BingoBoingo: asciilifeform: Of course. NES is a brick, but people still program for it because it offers the thigns you value.
asciilifeform: the basic idea being that a computer's owner should be able -and expected- to understand every aspect of every part in the machine (whether physical or logical) - and that everything about the design should be thought of with the purpose, above all others, of making this possible.
asciilifeform: it is not anything like a complete identification of the retardation of the past 25 years of computer.
decimation: asciilifeform: I think the impulse for 'defense in depth' is a good one, the problem is that it simply isn't possible on the von neumann machine
cazalla: <BingoBoingo> badon: How does collecting the shinies go? <<< thought BingoBoingo made a pokemon reference for a moment
badon: I just hoard it when it's cheap, and stop buying when it's expensive or there's a shortage.
BingoBoingo: That confuses me. SO you've bought a bunch of sausage, but never tasted the delicious pork in itself?
undata: a "managed" enemy
cazalla: dwolla is a name that seemed to jump the shark for web 2.0 names
undata: BingoBoingo: what is the strategy behind creating a "jews" and then turning them into your friend?
decimation: re: ford motor company << http://www.computerworld.com/article/2859373/ford-dumps-microsoft-for-qnx-unleashes-new-functions-in-sync-v3.html Ford dumped microshit for QNX, a proper RTOS, and apparently the 'infotainment' system works much better now
BingoBoingo: undata: The thing is enemies differ. Flu virus is a different enemy than Saddam is a different enemy than a mugger. In the cases of the latter two either could be turned friend. If either was turned friend that value of each differs on orders of magnitude.
undata: BingoBoingo: this "creating an external enemy" tactic is a classic move.
decimation: re: google wallet << turns out a guy who worked on 'google checkout' went to buy a bank in Kansas: http://dealbook.nytimes.com/2014/12/13/small-bank-in-kansas-is-a-financial-testing-ground/?_r=0
BingoBoingo: "Rules" solved a specifically American problem and birthed a number of other, specifically, American problems
BingoBoingo: The "Rules for Radicals" consists of nothing more or less than how to scare the Dailey family into realizing it isn't all poor people who are a threat, just the black ones.
mats: there's a nice 5% discount subsidized by google
BingoBoingo: This is why if you ever trade BTC for fiat value you never trade it for less than cash in a bag.
BingoBoingo: Neither of the latter two can fell a tree or remove a foot.
scoopbot: New post on Qntra.net by cazalla: http://qntra.net/2014/12/ford-motor-company-bitcoin-a-trend-for-2015/
mats: needs a z patterned snap
BingoBoingo just finished surgery on the laptop. Took forever for a replacement fan to arrive from china that wasn't counterfiet.
assbot: “Well, that was unexpected…”: The Raspberry Pi’s Hardware Random Number Generator | We Saw a Chicken … ... ( http://bit.ly/1w4Lfgx )
assbot: Apparently, a sufficient number of puppies can explain any computer science concept. Here we have multithreading: http://t.co/R08OZ08a7k
asciilifeform: because in order to distinguish the work from 'timecube', you need a) at least a year or two of undergrad physics b) a week or so of sweat
asciilifeform: al schwartz was rejected from, iirc, a dozen journals.
decimation: well, einstein was working in the swiss patent office at the time, he wasn't looking to leech a grant
asciilifeform: muppets walk in, in search of muppetry (it is an iron law that a work of muppetry must reference other such works)
asciilifeform: in any academic library, there are books which are actually about something, and there are also those that were printed to pad a muppet career
decimation: IEEE will gladly 'sell' you a work which is public domain
decimation: djb has a rant on ieee's policy w.r.t. works of the federal government: http://cr.yp.to/writing/ieee.html
decimation: I'm sure they would charge a hefty fee for the audit
asciilifeform: but moral principles against giving a scammer what he wants, won the day.
asciilifeform: my 'industrial' library subscription merits checking out of books, but not interlibrary loan nor access to anything requiring a password
asciilifeform: not much of a loss, however. the good stuff is usually decades-old and findable either in the (shrinking...) dead tree collections, or w4r3z
asciilifeform: decimation: deep in the sewage beneath the city streets, there is almost certainly a golden ring. or dozen.
decimation: it's possible that a few speakers might be non-grantsmen
asciilifeform: 'western media' is a steady diet of the archetypical 'honey don't forget to refuel the reactor, milk the bear, and turn us in to the kgb.'
asciilifeform: there's a crackpot 'he's really from xxx' thing
decimation: is that a mockery of stalin's 'cult of personality'?
asciilifeform: ben_vulpes: lol asciilifeform is the guy who shows up to work to push the right button << if you're thinking of my day job (vs moonlight gig, where i also push a button) - that firm folded. i do something quite like actual work now.
ben_vulpes: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jack_Donovan#Blood-Brotherhood_and_Other_Rites_of_Male_Alliance << i suspect the shartup circus is driven in no small part by young guys seeking blood rites or a war of the small band against the world. a hilarious quest for "honorable" victories.
Namworld: Considering the odds of getting a specific pocket pair, that's pretty impressive.
mircea_popescu: Namworld i imagine it's a way to pay slightlymore for the same junk
ben_vulpes: <mats> a clever manager and the same budget could fund a brigade of farmer warriors indefinitely << you're starting to sound like undata
ben_vulpes: <asciilifeform> or the hell where you're responsible for (and are the only available set of hands) for a missing magic ingredient in six different angry kitchens << lol asciilifeform is the guy who shows up to work to push the right button
adlai: "PayCoin™ uses a new Hybrid Flex Blockchain technique that regularly validates, compresses, and archives old transaction data to creates near-instant transaction times with a light, efficient, and extremely secure blockchain."
mats: if there was anyone competent at the reins, they'd be doing more than maintaining the A-10s
mats: the most sophisticated air frame ISIL is fielding is probably a quadcopter that can manage thirty minutes in the air
BingoBoingo: Apparently they are starting to fly an A-10 in sorties there, but... "Parity" All planes are born their way...
mats: a clever manager and the same budget could fund a brigade of farmer warriors indefinitely
punkman: what's a few hundred million compared to 65.7b
BingoBoingo almost kind of pities the new scammers. Sinking Harnett was worth 500 of mircea_popescu's BTC. Homero J Garza isn't worth a trilema post.
gribble: shazow was last seen in #bitcoin-assets 14 weeks, 1 day, 6 hours, 2 minutes, and 42 seconds ago: <shazow> was invited here by a fellow named gabriel at some coffeeshop, so don't mind my idling otherwise
mircea_popescu: little tidbits like the above i'd be too lazy to make a blogpost about.
mircea_popescu: i gotta say this chan is such a great thing.
mircea_popescu: never before has a scammer doubled down.
BingoBoingo: Sometime in the next decade this chan will prolly move to a new IRC network
agorecki: getting a cloak
agorecki: is there a way to get assbot to stop messaging me every time I join #bitcoin-assets? I got a cloak to avoid the ddos
BingoBoingo: I mean why abuse a legit wagering operation into an actual mixer when you can trust random derp who advertises a wagering operation as a mixer
asciilifeform: mats: it was a standard 'colour revolution' staged - unsuccessfully - by usg
mats: why is tienanmen sq such a big deal to americans
BingoBoingo: Still .44 millimeters sounds like a hell of a caliber
asciilifeform: BingoBoingo: recall, from primary school, that speed of bullet from a firearm is limited by the speed of sound in the propellant gas
asciilifeform: amazon crap << i had a hell of a time shipping from usa to ro.
BingoBoingo: Ah, a retailer http://www.warrug.com/
BingoBoingo: asciilifeform: If only someone were to make a proper internet silk road where golds were traded for pepper and rugs
kakobrekla: ah thats a 1.
asciilifeform: contents are a total snore, however.
asciilifeform: in other news, gen. keith alexander was recently issued a patent (for some generic sysadmin bullshit)
mircea_popescu: i should know better than to read the crap. there does not in fact exist a single google blog that's not idiotic.
decimation: whether the whole thing is a honeypot is debatable, but it clearly is supported by some parts of usg
mircea_popescu: "Recently, Pando (an Internet infotainment site) released a story accusing Tor of being some sort of government conspiracy. This is nonsense, of course."
mircea_popescu: denton's a total derp. but anyway, who cares. gawker's yesterday's news.
BingoBoingo: He had money and instead of doing the Paul Graham get bought as fast as possible thing, he built himself a playground.
BingoBoingo: decimation: He had a niche.
decimation: lol what a rube
BingoBoingo: "And for obvious reasons I have never been comfortable in a company dominated by territorial men. I hope I have made space for others who don’t fit the mould. And I pray that my information networks are still good enough to identify those leaders too busy being capable to promote themselves. At Gawker, despite the reputation of our journalism, nice guys finish first. And women." -Nick Denton
BingoBoingo: "Heather will be my deputy. She’s perfect for this, a much better official representative of the company than a half-Hungarian homosexual could ever be." - Nick Denton
BingoBoingo: "The fact is that I would like to end my career as a behind-the-scenes powerbroker, a Deng Xiaoping of Gawker Media, exerting discreet influence through obscure committees." -Nick Denton
mircea_popescu: "Men created most of what is good about the world. The excesses of masculinity are also, to be sure, responsible for much of what is bad. But if we are to avoid sliding into decline, mediocrity and a world in which men are actively discriminated against, we must arrest the decline in social attitudes towards them before so many victims are claimed that all hope of reconciliation between the sexes is lost. If that happe
asciilifeform: 'Unlike the powder form, the liquid packets have indistinct borders and can therefore resemble regular bowel content. That means a suspected drug mule would have to be processed all the way through to a CT scan' (from same site)
BingoBoingo: 'String Theory' Exists, but mundane strings are still a hard problem
assbot: 0 results for 'jacquard loom' : http://s.b-a.link/?q=jacquard+loom
asciilifeform: but what language they are programmed in remains a mystery to me
asciilifeform: BingoBoingo: laugh, but i thought about this as a boy. mother had (still has! we dragged it along to usa!) an east german knitting machine. manually-cranked, but you get to set patterns with myriad knobs and switches.
assbot: Everything in Context: Design a PL for Knitting at Disney Research Pittsburgh! ... ( http://bit.ly/1uxPkV4 )
BingoBoingo: mircea_popescu: FOr a while yesterday it seems the reddit 5-0 took a break from here to slow down qntra a bit
BingoBoingo: http://foxtrotalpha.jalopnik.com/russias-zil-builds-a-futuristic-armored-assault-wagon-1666346817
asciilifeform: or the hell where you're responsible for (and are the only available set of hands) for a missing magic ingredient in six different angry kitchens